Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?